Slander
דִּבָּהStrong’s H1681dibbah (dib-bah)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dibbah is the Hebrew word usually translated “report their”, “bad report of” and “bad report”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.”
Meaning
- Whispering, defamation, evil reportwhispering · defamation, defaming · evil report, unfavourable saying
How it's translated
- report their 1
- bad report of 1
- a bad report 1
- unfavorable report of 1
- slander of 1
- an evil report 1
- and evil report your 1
- whispering of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 3
- Proverbs 2
- Genesis 1
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 13:32And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
- Numbers 14:36And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
- Numbers 14:37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
- Psalms 31:13For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
- Proverbs 10:18He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
- Proverbs 25:10Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
Hebrew dictionary
דִּבָּה dibbah · slander
1) whispering, defamation, evil report 1a) whispering 1b) defamation, defaming 1c) evil report, unfavourable saying
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slander” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLA'NDER, noun
- A false tale or report maliciously uttered. and tending to injure the reputation of another by lessening him in the esteem of his fellow citizens, by exposing min to impeachment and punishment, or by impairing his means of lining; defamation. slander that worst of poisons, ever finds an easy entrance to ignoble minds.
All definitions and other forms of “slander”
SLA'NDER, verb transitive
To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report respecting one; to tarnish or impair the reputation of one by false tales, maliciously told or propagated.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.